ABSTRACT
Many Project Managers love their work and the challenges of delivering successful change and innovation in their organizations. However, many of them also strongly dislike report writing, seeing it as a time-consuming chore that takes them away from the dynamic aspects of the role they enjoy. While they sometimes delegate report writing, they may then take the resulting draft home, pull it apart and re-write it in their own style. The final report consumes double the effort, frustrates the Project Manager, his or her family – and the nominated report writer! H. G. Wells once said, ‘No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft’ – so beware! Other dangers arise when report writing is unplanned, or when you postpone writing until a deadline is imminent. In both cases, the output may be rushed, incomplete, unchecked, inaccurate, or otherwise flawed.
